As we enter the final months of 2025, Arnold Bloch Leibler is proud to celebrate the pro bono commitment by the firm’s partners and lawyers over the last year.
The firm’s FY25 pro bono contribution is included in the Australian Pro Bono Centre’s 18th Annual Performance 2025 report of the National Pro Bono Target. The report highlights that lawyers working in large Australian law firms (with 50 or more lawyers) delivered an average of 42.3 pro bono hours per lawyer in FY25, against the voluntary pro bono target of 35 hours per lawyer. This reflects an outstanding and growing contribution across the profession, under the esteemed leadership of the Centre.
For our part, in FY25, Arnold Bloch Leibler’s lawyers carried out 13,765 hours of pro bono public interest law work. Averaged out across the firm, that equates to 81.5 pro bono hours per ABL lawyer, which is more than 2.3 times the APBC’s voluntary target. Over the course of FY25 the production value of the firm’s public interest law work totalled more than $10.5 million.
In a note to staff, ABL’s public interest law partner Peter Seidel commented on the firm’s pro bono contribution: “These staggering numbers yet again reflect the firm’s ongoing staunch commitment to the importance of public interest law work, particularly in these increasingly troubling times. Giving back to community has always been and will forever remain at the core of Arnold Bloch Leibler’s unique culture.
He added: “Congratulations once again to all Arnold Bloch Leibler partners and each and every ABL staff member for contributing, directly and indirectly, to this truly inspiring result.”
